tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post5723903442536964119..comments2016-12-02T04:09:18.496-08:00Comments on Bryanna Clark Grogan’s Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: HOMEMADE HABITANT PEA SOUP (SOUPE AUX POIS), VEGAN-STYLEBryanna Clark Groganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13235333928055873948noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-41668477203957173082016-08-28T07:42:44.780-07:002016-08-28T07:42:44.780-07:00French Canadian peas, whole yellow peas are bing g...French Canadian peas, whole yellow peas are bing grown again in St - Georges Manitoba! These were brought to the area by settlers from Quebec over a hundred years ago.jon phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331529131333886791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-31775489396080715282016-01-28T17:57:27.217-08:002016-01-28T17:57:27.217-08:00I&#39;ve just found your website when I googled Ve...I&#39;ve just found your website when I googled Vegan whole yellow pea soup and up came your site. I&#39;m looking forward to taking some time to poke through your pages. I live in Quebec and grew up on the Habitant Pea Soup so I needed to try make my own vegan version and this was it. I made the soup minus the smoked ingredients and I just love it. Thank you so much for your delicious recipe. It will be my work lunch for the next few days. Just delicious. Will print it out and keep it in my favourite recipes collection. This one is a real winner.I rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17037179589585933584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-74001315867036624372015-02-18T10:42:18.698-08:002015-02-18T10:42:18.698-08:00Great recipe very similar to how I make this soup....Great recipe very similar to how I make this soup. I add a few whole cloves instead of allspice and a couple of bay leaves. I found a good sized bag of yellow peas in Walmart in Campbell River I&#39;ve usually had to make it with whole green peas.Leonanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-56842971940882440352013-12-20T12:06:17.407-08:002013-12-20T12:06:17.407-08:00Yes! O... ...M... ...G!
Soooooo... As I menti...Yes! O... ...M... ...G!<br /><br />Soooooo... As I mentioned, I liked the soup, but not certain elements of it. (Thank you, so much, for the recipe!) <br /><br />Starting with the recipe you so generously provided, I pared down the ingredients, to remove what I didn&#39;t like from the first go-&#39;round. This latest attempt is really quite close to what I remember Habitant soup tasting like. (Keep in mind that I&#39;ve been vegan for well-over a decade, and was vegetarian for many more years before that. So, it&#39;s been some time since I had that lard-y Habitant soup.) ;)<br /><br />I just soaked the whole yellow peas overnight, then added them to some (organic) vegetable broth, with the allspice, garlic, and a bay leaf, and simmered. As I do with my lentil soups, I later removed about half the whole peas, and blended the remainder in the pot, using a hand blender. (I DO like &quot;peas pudding&quot;! The thicker the better, for me!) I replaced the whole peas, and let simmer a little more, adjusting salt content.<br /><br />Seriously. That&#39;s it. I skipped everything else, and what I got was pretty darn close to what I remember. <br /><br />Thank you so much! This recipe is a keeper!! :DJodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-69065656077004501292013-11-30T14:29:33.958-08:002013-11-30T14:29:33.958-08:00Jody, most certainly flavor it to your own taste! ...Jody, most certainly flavor it to your own taste! Did you puree some of the soup at the end, as I mentioned in the recipe? This makes it thicker, without being like &quot;peas pudding&quot;.<br />Bryanna Clark Groganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13235333928055873948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-85824479805082409052013-11-30T13:36:19.005-08:002013-11-30T13:36:19.005-08:00Thank you for this recipe. :)
I made it exactly ...Thank you for this recipe. :)<br /><br />I made it exactly as described, and it is good. <br /><br />However...it is not what I was hoping for, exactly. I kept wondering how the celery, carrots, and onion would play into the soup, since Habitant brand pea soup doesn&#39;t have obvious bits of any of those things. (Just pureed yellow peas and some whole peas.) Plus, I didn&#39;t really understand the &quot;ham&quot; suggestion, since I like the plain pea soup. I accidentally bought the one with ham, years ago, and it was vile. It seems like the liquid smoke is the culprit. The soup smelled great until I added it. Then it smelled like hot dogs. ;)<br /><br />When I went vegetarian (a few years before going vegan), I reluctantly had to give up Habitant pea soup...possibly my all-time favourite prepared soup...because of the stupid lard. <br /><br />This recipe is good, and oh, so close. If I try it again (and I only say &quot;if&quot; because of the volume it makes), I will definitely leave out the liquid smoke. That&#39;s where my main grievance comes from, I suspect. I mean, this tastes like pea soup with meat in it. I didn&#39;t even like that when I ate meat. But the soup is so tantalizingly-close to what I was trying to get...<br /><br />At the 2hr mark, I blended the soup a bit, of course. I simmered it for an additional hour with the lid off, as it was still too watery for my liking.<br /><br />The final product is a tasty vegan soup...enough for a baseball team, in the style of Habitant brand pea soup. <br /><br />I&#39;ll check back if/when I make it without the liquid smoke, to see if that works better for me.<br /><br />Oh, I had no trouble finding whole yellow peas at my first stop, my local Metro grocery store.<br /><br />Thank you so much for getting me on the right track! I really appreciate it!!Jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-43436476273086754422013-09-18T18:51:28.657-07:002013-09-18T18:51:28.657-07:00Another source of whole yellow peas (and other leg...Another source of whole yellow peas (and other legumes) is South Asian (or other Asian) markets.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-20591312199628634382013-04-18T10:59:48.990-07:002013-04-18T10:59:48.990-07:00Thanks for posting this recipe! It&#39;s hard to f...Thanks for posting this recipe! It&#39;s hard to find a French Canadian pea soup recipe that uses whole peas. I live in Ontario, Canada and just bought a 900 gram bag of whole yellow peas this morning in my local Food Basics grocery store.Kerrinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-6748933412298245622013-03-26T16:17:32.649-07:002013-03-26T16:17:32.649-07:00Yeah, I know about that. I&#39;ve had a few batch ...Yeah, I know about that. I&#39;ve had a few batch of canary beans and chick peas that just would cook.<br /><br />But I got those whole peas last month from some sort of CSA and I assumed they would be quite fresh. Maybe not!Babettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019175654217050763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-60806223872186884042013-03-26T14:43:59.836-07:002013-03-26T14:43:59.836-07:00They might have been old, Babette-- dried legumes ...They might have been old, Babette-- dried legumes get harder to cook if they are on the shelf for a long time, so try to buy from a store with a good turn-over. I have had a few experiences with kidney beans and pinto beans that just would NOT cook through, even with soaking, regular cooking, and then pressure cooking! &quot;The leading cause of toughness in beans (sounds like I’m about to unveil some scary medical news, huh?) is age. Just because you bought the dried beans from your store last week doesn’t mean they are new. As dried beans age, the pores through which the water enters tend to close and the outer coating may change, too. If water can’t get into the bean, they aren’t going to soften no matter how long you cook them.<br />My best advice is to try again with beans from a store with a high turnover rate on their dry goods. It won’t do any good to buy the same beans from the same store if they came out of that same shipment from long ago.&quot; From http://www.home-ec101.com/why-wont-my-dried-beans-soften/Bryanna Clark Groganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13235333928055873948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-52634191790724869332013-03-26T14:32:35.405-07:002013-03-26T14:32:35.405-07:00I tried it last night and it is pretty good. My pe...I tried it last night and it is pretty good. My peas needed more than 2 hours of cooking though, even though they had soaked for at least 15 hours.Babettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019175654217050763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-58155810420661137932013-02-22T17:30:40.871-08:002013-02-22T17:30:40.871-08:00This makes me hungry I love it thanks for postingThis makes me hungry I love it thanks for postingHiggingtonhttp://www.higgingtonpost.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-72297690665449176612013-02-19T18:27:56.011-08:002013-02-19T18:27:56.011-08:00This brings back so many memories! I could devore ...This brings back so many memories! I could devore this soup when I was young. <br />I&#39;ll add this recipe to my weekend projects. Thank you, Bryanna. <br />Does it freeze well?Nezuminoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-74712810942076867332013-02-19T15:18:55.517-08:002013-02-19T15:18:55.517-08:00Quiltbug, they do look kinda white when dry becaus...Quiltbug, they do look kinda white when dry because the skin covers up the yellow part inside. Here&#39;s a photo: http://www.purcellmountainfarms.com/Whole%20Yellow%20Peas.JPG and I&#39;ll add it to the blog.Bryanna Clark Groganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13235333928055873948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-8576877492767367382013-02-19T15:12:39.447-08:002013-02-19T15:12:39.447-08:00I checked out whole yellow peas today but the ones...I checked out whole yellow peas today but the ones in the bin looked white and not yellow. Is that what they are supposed to look like. I&#39;m used to yellow split peas which are very yellow in colourQuiltbughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15252911486301630074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-22435615735382438342013-02-19T11:21:53.199-08:002013-02-19T11:21:53.199-08:00This soup rocks my boat Bryanna! I have been eatin...This soup rocks my boat Bryanna! I have been eating a lot of soups lately as a way to re-educate myself how to eat &quot;normally&quot; and to minimise the size of my evening meal. Soup is the new black in my life and this one is cram packed full of scrumptious possibilities. With winter coming up I need to transition from lighter Asian style miso broths and thinner veggie soups to heartier thicker pottages and this one is just the ticket :) Thank you for this wonderful gift of a recipe :)narf7noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24141461.post-39471948105278879672013-02-18T17:24:56.059-08:002013-02-18T17:24:56.059-08:00I had no idea that Habitant pea soups were called ...I had no idea that Habitant pea soups were called &quot;French Canadian&quot; soups! I&#39;m a Frenchie and I love pea soup. I actually thought they were made with split peas, since that&#39;s all I have ever see in vegan cookbooks (and vegan cookbooks are the only ones I know).<br /><br />The funny thing is that just last week, I got a bag of dried peas from my CSA share, and I was startled to actually see whole peas. I&#39;ll make sure to try out your recipe! Merci!Babettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07019175654217050763noreply@blogger.com